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Moscow. Russia’s financial watchdog has included chess grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov in the list of ‘terrorists and extremists’. The 60-year-old former world chess champion has been a longtime rival of President Vladimir Putin and has repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. The Russian organization Rosfinmonitoring watchdog is responsible for combating money laundering and terrorist funding and the bank accounts of people included in the list can be seized. Rosfinmonitoring has added Soviet-born Kasparov to its database of ‘terrorists and extremists’ without giving any reason.
Human rights groups say it is a label and method the Kremlin uses to silence its critics. At the same time, the label of being ‘foreign agents’ is imposed on those people who are seen as enemies of the government. Garry Kasparov is considered one of the greatest chess players in the world. He has lived in the US for more than a decade, where he has focused on political activism.
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In February last year, he urged the West to continue its support for Kiev and said Ukraine needed to defeat Moscow as a “precondition” for bringing about democratic change in Russia. Kasparov fled Russia in 2014 due to fear of persecution. In 2022 the Russian Justice Ministry placed Kasparov and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on its list of ‘foreign agents’, subjecting them to rigorous bureaucratic and financial reporting.
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first published : March 7, 2024, 10:38 pm IST
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